5.L1,L2 and L3

 "One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.''

                                    - Frank Smith  (The Book of Learning and Forgetting)

Language-1

The first language is the language or dialect that a person has been exposed since childhood. Malayalam, which is a Dravidian language is the native language of people of Kerala state, Lakshadweep islands and Puducherry. Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan is known as the father of Malayalam language and literature. Malayalam language also has dialects which changes locally.

Language-2

A second language is any language that the person uses other than the first language. In Kerala, English is the second language. After colonialisation of India by the British empire, they imposed English language on Indians. Hence, it became a second language of many states of India including Kerala. Today English is a globally accepted language with many dialects including British English, American English etc.

Language-3

Third language is the language other than the mother tongue and English that a person learns. In Kerala, Hindi is commonly used as the third language. Hindi (Devanagiri) is also the national language of our country. Hindi is a descendent of Sanskrit, which is an ancient Indian language. It has been influenced by languages such as Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Portuguese and English.

Through learning many languages one can understand the culture of the places in which they are spoken.

 -Submitted  by  Abhinand

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 1^ST language is the mother language that is acquired from birth. For Ex: - His mother Tongue is Assamese. He has been speaking Assamese since his childhood. This is the 1^st language.

2^nd language is the language usually learned at a later stage after a mother tongue.

3^rd language is the language that the person is learning or he can speak. This is not his mother language or native language.

 

First language	Second language	Third language
It can be acquired easily by listening to parents/family communicating with you. It is less complex.	It is learned after mother tongue that the person speaks outside his home to communicate with other people. It is learned actively by studying grammar rules.	It is not a mother tongue or communicating language. It is just a language that person knows or trying to learn.

 

 “if you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his

head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.”

-Nelson Mandela

-Submitted  by Chirag  Yadav